Of course, a person can't know what a sniper's thinking when it comes to that last bid,
but if a guy's been inchin' his way thru an auction and decides to snipe at the end,
there's a pretty good chance that he'll be inchin' there too.
You know, it's at $100 and he may snipe at $105 or something close.
That's good news for the highest bidder if he was smart and made a genuine
maximum bid - his maximum.
...but where it gets rough is when the sniper has been watching and hasn't bid yet -
right out of the blue - he swoops down and places a sniper bid.
At that time, all you can hope for is that you placed the maximum bid that you can handle.
It always comes down to this - sometimes, praying that it never gets as high as your max.
I've bid ridiculously high on things and went, "Oh s**t, man, what was I thinkin? - ohhh, boy..." -
of course, with full intentions of honoring the deal, but whooooa, sometimes...